Fred Stoller (right) and Angelo Tsarouchas test the bounds and bonds of friendship in FRED AND VINNIE.

Friends are friends, right up to the point they move in with you. Then, they’re less friends and more a Skinnerian experiment in how long one can accommodate one’s life to the demands of another before the psyche fractures permanently. In the based-on-real-life comedy FRED & VINNIE, comedian and actor Fred Stoller (EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND; SEINFELD) brings amiable, agoraphobic friend Vinnie (Angelo Tsarouchas) into his home, and discovers the man’s passive-aggressive demeanor and obsessive-compulsive behavior doesn’t quite sync with the responsibilities of a show-business professional. Written by Stoller and directed by RAYMOND writer/producer Steve Skrovan, the film’s at once darkly funny and genuinely empathetic, a knowing examination of neuroses in conflict. We reached out to Fred Stoller to talk about the project; click on the player to hear the interview.